Christian iconography; or, The history of Christian art in the middle ages (1851)
Didron, Adolphe Napoléon, 1806-1867, Millington, Ellen J, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 167
hand in the old way of picturing the Larva, or bad mansghost. This had always been depicted as a skeleton.* Tothe Christian, Life, here and hereafter, is the fulfilment ofdivine law. Death, here and hereafter, was the conse-quence of original sin and the infraction, not fulfilment, oflaw. Thus such… … Wg. 198.t beautiful day; and, through a series of links in thedevelopment of religion, and of impressions of onereligion upon another, Death has become a livingskeleton among Christians. The portraits of Satan inearly Christian legend represent him as a hideous, flesh-less being, a soot-black…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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